On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:20:38 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:59:49 +0200 "Torsten Kaiser" <just.for.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 9/10/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:49:26 +0100 Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > I have a couple of old NUMA-Q systems which are unable to read their > > > > boot disks with 2.6.23-rc4-mm1. The disks appear to be recognised and > > > > even the partition tables read correctly, and then they go pop: > > > > I reported a similar problem on Sep 1, but until now got no response. > > You still haven't had a response ;) Let's add a cc. > > Oh, you reported it against 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 > (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/1/92) and I did cc linux-ide in my response. > > I'll continue to point out where this sort of thing occurs because last > week I was told that a reson why so many bug reports are ignored is because > "linux-kernel has too much traffic". many SCSI people don't subscribe to linux-kernel, I think. > > The system boots, reads the partition tables, starts the RAID and then > > kicks one drive out because of errors. > > Andy is using qla1280. You're using sata. So it's probably a different > bug, with the same symptoms. This might be a sg chaining bug too (probabaly sg chaining libata patch). Can you try the following patch that I've just sent: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/10/251 The patch also disables chaining sg list for libata. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
